The BEST episodes of The Legend of Tarzan
Every episode of The Legend of Tarzan ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Legend of Tarzan!
The new adventures of the hero of the jungle Tarzan and his friends.
#1 - Tarzan and the Rough Rider
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 9/21/2001
Tarzan and his jungle are visited by former President Teddy Roosevelt and, while on the hunt for animal specimens to study (which of course Tarzan heavily disapproves of), both are kidnapped by conspirators. In the process of escape, Tarzan teaches the President the importance of respecting nature.
#2 - Tarzan and the Lost City of Opar
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/6/2001
After Professor Porter is taken captive by the Leopard Men, Tarzan and the others track him to the lost city of Opar, ruled by a strange woman, Queen La. But after seeing Tarzan fight to rescue the professor, La wishes to make him King over Opar.
#3 - Tarzan and the Silver Ape
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 9/24/2001
The Professor learns about a spiritual silver ape that, supposedly, cures the injured of the jungle. Not believing this is a spiritual creature, he plans to study it more. But when Philander steals his notes and finds out about the ape, he plans to capture it.
#4 - Tarzan and the Challenger
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 9/25/2001
A giant python named Hista is terrorizing the gorillas and Tarzan's leadership of the family is challenged by Moyo. Tarzan and Moyo must fight together to defeat Hista and save the family.
#5 - Tarzan and the Outbreak
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 9/26/2001
A logger who cuts down trees only for the money gets a dangerous disease. Not only him, but his only child and friends, also. Tarzan nurses and does whatever he can for them, despite the logger being unkind to Tarzan's home.
#6 - Tarzan and the Fountain
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/13/2001
The Professor eagerly awaits the arrival of a colleague, Professor Doyle, but upon arrival, all are surprised to find that Professor Doyle is a woman. During her stay, the two find some of the older men of the Keewazi tribe to have quite startling ages and learn about a great fountain that may be responsible for their apparent longevity. Professor Porter, who feels he's too old for Robin romantically, secretly sets forth to find this fountain.
#7 - Tarzan and the Poisoned River (1)
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/10/2001
Tantor falls ill after drinking from the river and the Professor concludes the water must be contaminated. While Terk tends to the sick Tantor, Tarzan, Jane and the Professor begin a perilous journey upriver to find the source of the contamination. Things go from bad to worse when the three are captured by a tribe who accuse them of poisoning the river.
#8 - Tarzan and the Poisoned River (2)
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/11/2001
Tarzan and Basuli discover a mining operation is the source of the contaminant. Tarzan and his friends ally themselves with the villagers and devise a scheme to fight the miners.
#9 - Tarzan and the Beast From Below
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 9/28/2001
Terk gains an appreciation for Tantor's phobias when a velociraptor (loose from Pellucidar) scares her silly.
#10 - Tarzan and the Lost Treasure
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 10/2/2001
Count Nikolas Rokoff hears about a treasure in the valley of the leopards and plans to find it. Tarzan doesn't want to help... until Nikolas threatens to kill Jane if he doesn't.
#11 - Tarzan and the New Wave
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 10/1/2001
A schooner is sinking and on board are Jane's friends Greenley, Eleanor, Hazel and Greenley's fiancé Henry. Eleanor and Hazel do not think Henry is very 'well rounded' and hope exposing him to Tarzan can toughen him up. Henry's bravery, resourcefulness and manliness are put to the test when the four are swept away into the jungle by a tidal wave caused by an earthquake.
#12 - Tarzan and the All-Seeing Elephant
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 9/30/2001
Tantor believes in an All-Seeing Elephant, but Terk doesn't. Tantor convinces Tarzan, Jane and the Professor to go with him to search of the All-Seeing Elephant, and Terk comes along. During their journey, a rock avalanche occurs; Tantor sees Terk in trouble and protects her. Terk is surprised she is alive and tells everyone "If my buddy wants to see the All-seeing Elephant, then he's seeing the All-seeing Elephant." But the journey becomes more difficult and dangerous.
#13 - Tarzan and the Leopard Men Rebellion
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 9/20/2001
When the Leopard Men of Opar kidnap Jane, Tarzan must rely on Queen La's help to rescue her. But La has motives of her own... and so do the Leopard Men.
#14 - Tarzan and the Protege
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 9/19/2001
Dr. Robin Doyle returns to the jungle with her nephew Ian, a nerdy child with few friends, who spends his time collecting butterflies. While Robin and the Professor spend some quality time together, the task of entertaining Ian falls to Tarzan. Lacking any other experience, Tarzan fills the day with activities he enjoyed as a child. But none of this sits quite well with Jane, who worries about the dangers of a small child swinging recklessly from tree to tree -- and what Dr. Doyle will say when she finds out.
#15 - Tarzan and the Jungle Madness
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 9/18/2001
Tarzan and Jane are returning home from visiting the Waziri Village via a river boat piloted by Hugo and Hooft. When they land, they notice that Dumont's trading post is really growing and modernizing. They also notice that the jungle is eerily quiet with no animal sounds to be heard. When they return home they find the tree house is in shambles as is the professor's camp and he has disappeared. Terk and Tantor burst into the camp complaining of a ringing in their heads and acting violently. Soon Tarzan and Jane are on the run for their lives as all of the jungle animals have turned against them in a psychotic rage. Later, while hiding from the animals, Tarzan discovers that the ringing the animals hear is due to a recent radio broadcasting tower built at Dumont's trading post. After Tarzan tricks them into destroying the tower, the animals return to their old selves again.
#16 - Tarzan and the Rift
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 9/16/2001
Poachers arrive in the jungle and are setting traps everywhere, so Tarzan warns everyone to be careful. Meanwhile, Terk encourages Tantor to act on his attractions to a female elephant named Dania with a talent for singing. The first date goes well, and though everybody finds Dania perfectly charming, she herself gets off on the wrong foot with Terk. When Terk discovers Tantor would rather spend his time with Dania than her, she plans to break them up, but things don't go too well. Terk is caught in one of the poachers traps and put in a cage. Now Tantor must decide which is more important to him, his relationship with the difficult Dania, or saving his best friend from being apenapped.
#17 - Tarzan and the Seeds of Destruction
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 9/23/2001
Disgusted by the decay near the elephant territory, Jane tries to use an English vine to cover up the scent. But the vines cover up everything and are too poisonous to eat. While Jane and the Professor try to think of a solution, Tarzan invites the elephants to live with the gorillas, but how long can they live together in harmony?
#18 - Tarzan and the Lost Cub
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/5/2001
When Jane finds a lost leopard cub in the jungle, Tarzan reluctantly puts aside his previous history with leopards and lets the cub stay. But when the cub inadvertently causes trouble, Jane realizes that the only solution is to find the cub's mother.
#19 - Tarzan and the Silver Screen
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 9/27/2001
A film crew comes to make an action movie and Tarzan becomes confused by the acting, with his actions resulting in him replacing the film's male lead as the star. Later, a fire starts at the trading post when the jealous actor tries to destroy the film footage containing Tarzan, and they must stop it.
#20 - Tarzan and the Enemy Within
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/12/2001
Tarzan and Terk find an injured gorilla named Gobu, after being attacked by hyenas. Welcoming him into the herd, Gobu instead requests Tarzan to help him on his journey home. Unbeknownst to them, Gobu is actually under orders from an old enemy of his, to lure Tarzan into a trap. Meanwhile, Jane and the Professor attempt to teach Terk to be more lady-like, in order to impress Gobu.
#21 - Tarzan and the Fugitives
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/7/2001
Two American deserters from the French Foreign Legion find themselves in the jungle and befriended by Tarzan.
#22 - Tarzan and the Trading Post
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/4/2001
A trade manager, named Renard Dumont, makes his trading post where the rhino herd is, causing them to move into gorilla territories. The rhinos refuse to leave or share the territory with the gorillas, leaving Tarzan to find a solution to this dilemma before the gorillas are forced to relocate.
#23 - Tarzan and the Giant Beetles
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 9/17/2001
The Professor takes a fluid sample from some giant flowers in the jungle, in order to study them further. But when Terk and Tantor accidentally spill some of the fluid onto a few beetles, it makes them giants themselves. To stay out of trouble, they attempt to keep them hidden in order to stop anyone from finding out about them.
#24 - Tarzan and the Rogue Elephant
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/9/2001
Baruti and Jamila, an elephant couple, migrate into Tantor's herd to protect their hypochondriac son, Jabari, from the mad rampages of Mbaya, an elephant gone "rogue". Eventually Tantor comes to believe that he may be responsible for Mbaya's recent rampage. Meanwhile, Jane attempts to discover something that Tarzan's afraid of.
#25 - Tarzan and the Race Against Time
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/3/2001
Tarzan is bitten by a poisonous spider and Jane must race to find an antidote.